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Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 14 December 2017 15:02 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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In article <20c3e34b-a1f8-8aaa-81dd-88d8191d192c@alvestrand.no> you write:
>Den 14. des. 2017 15:22, skrev Murray S. Kucherawy:
>>     mime-type: application/zstandard; contains="text/plain; charset=utf-8"

Ugh.

>No - it's been quite controversial the times (long ago) that it's been
>proposed.
>
>I think it was suggested for RFC 6713 (application/gzip), but it didn't
>survive the discussion. Probably that RFC should be taken as precedent.

As far as I recall It didn't come up for 6713 which whizzed through
and had a concrete use case of DMARC aggregate reports where everyone
knew that the contents were XML.

Perhaps it came up for RFCs 1950, 1951, and 1952 which describe the
underlying encoding.

R's,
John

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